Hwangsa sunrise

Ah yes... I returned to Korea just in time to venture out into an early saturation of "yellow dust."

Each spring, prevailing winds whip up sand from Mongolia along with topsoil and pollutants from China, the combination of which then wafts over the Yellow Sea into Korea, Japan and other parts of the Pacific Rim. This is usually at its worst in April, but here it was the third day of March and the Sun appeared as if it was covered by rice paper because of the dusty haze.